[Eeglablist] EEGLAB news

[Scott Makeig]

Two items of possible interest to eeglablist users and contributors,
as we approach our fourth and by far largest EEGLAB workshop in La
Jolla this next week:

First, we have received the good news that our US National Institutes
of Health (NIH) proposal for continued funding of EEGLAB development
is 'highly likely' to be successful. Thanks to all who sent us letters
of support for this vital application, as well as to all who have
contributed EEGLAB plug-ins, functions, bug reports, suggestions,
workshops and seminars, research publications, and word of mouth
goodwill!

The new funding will allow us to add over time several categories of
functionality to EEGLAB as well as considering fundamental
improvements in programming to increase its reliability and ease of
use. During this process, we will make every effort to maintain and
enhance the user experience to minimize or eliminate any need for
re-learning by EEGLAB users.

Second, we are planning to submit a second proposal to NIH in the new
year to create an associated human electrophysiology database (for
EEG, MEG, ECOG, and related multimodal imaging) within the NIH Brain
Informatics Research Network (BIRN).

We are looking for EEGLAB community members who may be interested and
potentially willing to share their data online -- particularly
existing data, either already in EEGLAB format or not. Of special
interest would be large studies. Typically, archived data would have
been already reported in primary publications, and would be made
available for further mining using current or future analysis methods,
including training and research by students of new analysis methods.
Human use approval issues would be handled carefully. The project
might also support existing research community groups who would like
to exchange and share accumulating new data among themselves.

The BIRN network also has supercomputer cluster resources available to
it -- one of the areas we are exploring is the possibility of linking
the database to selected large-scale data processing capabilities.

I would be pleased to hear from any members of this list who would be
interested in participating, and particularly from any list members
who might if asked contribute a letter of support to accompany the
database proposal. Please respond to smakeig at ucsd.edu.

Scott

-- 
Scott Makeig, Research Scientist and Director, Swartz Center for
Computational Neuroscience, Institute for Neural Computation,
University of California San Diego, La Jolla CA 92093-0961,
http://sccn.ucsd.edu/~scott